I love all kinds and shades of purple, and have quite a lot of those colors in my wardrobe. Like Melissa, I’ve also had purple hair, but that was way back when I was around 17 or something, and it was kind of a dark brown/purple/almost black. Looked amazing in sunlight, and I had navy blue cat eye glasses and lots of colorful clothes, I probably looked cut out from a fifties cartoon :)

Purple is my favorite color! I know a lot of people think it’s a color for kids, but it has so many different moods: whimsical, playful, sophisticated, mysterious…. Plus, many of the most delicious foods are purple: blackberries, plums, grapes…
In my experience, nearly everyone looks good in some shade of purple.

My grandmother, who taught me how to sew when I was three, absolutely adored purple! She wore some shade of it every day of her life while she was able. She was a rebel in many ways, and my love of purple came by her. My favorite color is red but what would red be without purple by its side? : )

About the Sew Weekly

The Sew Weekly began as Mena Trott's attempt to document the process of sewing all of her own clothes in 2010. In 2011, four other contributors (Debi Fry, Adey Lim, Veronica Darling & Sarah Gabbart) joined her and for 52 weeks, they sewed based on a particular weekly theme. In 2012, The Sew Weekly became a much larger group blog with over 130 contributors sewing along each week.